Unilateral Basal Ganglia Infarction in a Neonate Born to a Mother with Gestational Diabetes: Case Report

Perinatal stroke may be defined as an acute neurologic syndrome with chronic sequelae due to cerebral injury of vascular origin occurring between 20 weeks gestation and 28 days postnatal life, confirmed by neuroimaging or neuropathological studies [1]. These disorders include focal cerebral injury due to arterial ischemic stroke, cerebral venous thrombosis, and primary intracerebral hemorrhage. PAIS is the most frequent type of pediatric stroke, and account for 70 percent of acute symptomatic perinatal stroke [4]. It is probably related to perinatal activation of coagulation mechanisms, affecting fetal and neonatal thrombogenesis during the critical perinatal period [5].